“Salmon Berry Blossom on Black Water” Lynn Schooler
The impetus for this post was the beauty of our solar eclipse with its dramatic changes of light.
Chiaroscuro
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: pictorial representation in terms of light and shade without regard to color
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: the arrangement or treatment of light and dark parts in a pictorial work of art:
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the quality of being veiled or partly in shadow
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Inside every living thing, no matter how beautiful, if opened fully enough was darkness. A Trick of the Light Louise Penny
If you have ever spent time in the company of the dark emotions, you too may have received subtle messages from friends and strangers alike that you were supposed to handle them and move on sooner instead of later. Some of us have even gotten the message that if we cannot do this on schedule, we may not have enough faith in God. If we had enough, we would be able to banish the dark angels from our beds, replacing them with the light angels of belief, trust, and praise. Greenspan [Healing Through the Dark Emotions by Miriam Greenspan] calls this “spiritual bypassing”—using religion to dodge the dark emotions instead of letting it lead us to embrace those dark angels as the best, most demanding spiritual teachers we may ever know…The emotions themselves are conduits of pure energy that want something from us: to wake us up, to tell us something we need to know, to break the ice around our hearts, to move us to act.
Learning to Walk in the Dark Barbara Brown Taylor
Lynn Schooler photo used with permission
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